Word: reactors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy had set up an atomic project under Captain Hyman Rickover, a hard-driving officer who had been insisting since 1947 that an atomic-powered submarine was feasible (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951). So Westinghouse and Captain Rickover got together and in 1948, signed the contract for the reactor...
...pump, which drives the water to be heated through the atomic reactor, can have no protruding shafts, which might cause leaks of deadly radioactive material. Pump and motor combined are "canned" inside the water pipe...
...cobalt "source," the most powerful yet released by the AEC, got its punch by soaking up neutrons for nearly eight months in the nuclear reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island. It traveled across the country in a two-ton lead container. Stanford research-men still look at their dangerous captive with some awe, but they intend to put it to practical work, such as sterilizing delicate substances (e.g., penicillin) that are damaged when sterilized by heat...
...think 1953 should be a year of con tinued high production in the appliance business. We expect the consumer to buy at the highest rate in history." In 1953 the long-heralded age of atomic power will dawn. Westinghouse will start operating the land-based prototype of the reactor it is building to power the sub marine Nautilus. Since the reactor could also be used to run a commercial power plant, the National Security Resources Board urged the Atomic Energy Commission to let U.S. industry apply its own huge resources to speeding up the peacetime uses'of atomic power...
...spent metal that remains when U-235 is extracted from natural uranium to make atom bombs. Through both blanket and core circulates a sodium-potassium alloy that is liquid at ordinary temperatures. This coolant carries away the heat of the nuclear reaction. The fluid metal leaves the reactor at 660° F., and produces enough steam to generate 250 kw. of power...